Mirrors are always wrong.

Your perceptions are always influenced by knowledge which you gain from others. What do I mean by this is what you see? or what you smell? or what you hear? or any other senses you use are influenced by the knowledge which is not yours but by knowledge which is taught to you by others. It is a distant possibility that what you perceive may not be what is been perceived.

"Cognition is what taught to us and recognition is done based on understanding of what is taught."

Does that mean that everything we perceive is wrong? There is no yes/no answer to this question because, it depends on what you are taught and what you have understood. Your understanding is etched as your thoughts. Yes, its *your* thoughts. Its *you* who think, others can influence it but your thoughts are always *yours*. That's the reason I think too much, sometimes to the limit of craziness. Yes I am crazy. Being stupid is the most challenging task, because you do not assume anything. Its your thoughts which enable you beat the system of perception by letting you think beyond your perception.